| Written by Alex Stojanovic TRACK LISTING Lord Of Hate Where They Lay Why You Do This Fallen Absence Of Light The Organization Don't Save Me Succubus It Can't Be This Let The Pieces Fall Faded Remains Volcanic Falling Off The Edge Of The World (Black Sabbath cover) Guilty Of Innocence Alive & Screaming DEATH ANGEL IS: Mark Osegueda - Vocals Rob Cavestany - Lead guitars & backing vocals Ted Aguilar - Rhythm guitars Will Carroll - Drums Damien Sisson - Bass |  Release Date: November 26, 2021 Label: Nuclear Blast Records Website: www.deathangel.us www.facebook.com/deathangel www.instagram.com/deathangelofficial |
It has been a tumultuous couple of years for the Bay Area boys in Death Angel. By now, we all know the good and the bad that they've been through between 2019 and now, including their first Grammy nomination for the Humanicide title track, then heading out on the Bay Strikes Back tour in Europe with Testament and Exodus, which would then be followed by the scary episode of Will Carroll's COVID-19 battle, which left him in a coma for 12 days. Since then, he has had a slow but steady recovery process, and now, it almost seems like nothing even happened to him, which everyone is thankful for. However, due to the pandemic, the band has not been able to play live, until recently, so during the lockdown, they did what a lot of bands were doing. They rented out the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco for a paid livestream show. What made this livestream even more special, especially for the die-hard fans, was that the setlist was nothing but deep tracks, including songs they rarely live and/or never played live, which also resulted in the brand new live album The Bastard Tracks.
Now some of these songs, the most times that most of these songs were played live was on the tours promoting the albums that they originally appeared on. Songs like "Lord Of Hate", "Fallen", "Absence Of Light", "Don't Save Me" and "Succubus" were all played during the tours for their respective albums that they appeared on, like Killing Season, Relentless Retribution and The Dream Calls For Blood. However, as good as "Lord Of Hate" is on the original recording, it's awesome to hear how it would've sounded with more enhanced production, because Killing Season felt like it was lacking something production-wise. The same can be said about classic tracks like "Why You Do This", "The Organization", and "Guilty Of Innocence". It would've been kind of cool if we could've also gotten one or two tracks from The Ultra-Violence as well, but because the album means so much to the band and the fans as the way it is, I understand why they doesn't really want to touch those songs.
As I mentioned before, live albums aren't something I tend to review too often when compared to full-length studio albums and EPs, but something like Death Angel's Bastard Tracks is special, especially for us die-hard fans who love the deep cuts. It sure makes us all hope that when the band goes back out on tour this spring, they will pull more of these tracks out of the vaults and back into the set along with all the other fan favourites they play.
Now some of these songs, the most times that most of these songs were played live was on the tours promoting the albums that they originally appeared on. Songs like "Lord Of Hate", "Fallen", "Absence Of Light", "Don't Save Me" and "Succubus" were all played during the tours for their respective albums that they appeared on, like Killing Season, Relentless Retribution and The Dream Calls For Blood. However, as good as "Lord Of Hate" is on the original recording, it's awesome to hear how it would've sounded with more enhanced production, because Killing Season felt like it was lacking something production-wise. The same can be said about classic tracks like "Why You Do This", "The Organization", and "Guilty Of Innocence". It would've been kind of cool if we could've also gotten one or two tracks from The Ultra-Violence as well, but because the album means so much to the band and the fans as the way it is, I understand why they doesn't really want to touch those songs.
As I mentioned before, live albums aren't something I tend to review too often when compared to full-length studio albums and EPs, but something like Death Angel's Bastard Tracks is special, especially for us die-hard fans who love the deep cuts. It sure makes us all hope that when the band goes back out on tour this spring, they will pull more of these tracks out of the vaults and back into the set along with all the other fan favourites they play.
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